thính

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰïŋ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɨn˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰɨn˦˥]

thính • (𥺐, 𥻢, 𥺒, 𫃈)

1. powdered grilled rice (used to make food)
2. roasted bran used as bait for fish or shrimp
3. (neologism, slang) “bait” (for attracting someone); flirtation; romantic advances

Sino-Vietnamese word from 聽 (“to listen”).

Its Middle Chinese ancestor 聽 (MC theng) "to listen" would have yielded regularly SV reflex **thinh; this attested reflex, with sắc-tone (which suggests a Middle Chinese ancestor with departing tone & unvoiced initial), possibly has arisen from confusion with 聽 (MC thengH) "to administer, to adjudicate", which had departing tone.

thính

1. keen; sharp

   thính mũi ― having a keen noise